Anteropora Subhapradha, 1955

Mojica, Kendra R., Jensen, Kirsten & Caira, Janine N., 2013, Revision Of Anteropora (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) And Descriptions Of Five New Species From Stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) In Borneo, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61 (2), pp. 491-506 : 503-504

Anteropora Subhapradha, 1955

Type species. — Anteropora indica Subhapradha, 1955

Other species. — Anteropora cuba , new species, A. glandapiculis , new species, A. japonica ( Yamaguti, 1934)

Euzet, 1994, A. joannae , new species, A. klosmamorphis Jensen, Nikolov & Caira, 2011 , A. leelongi Jensen, 2005 , A. patulobothridium , new species, A. pumilionis , new species.

Generic diagnosis. — (Modified from Jensen, 2005). Worms hyperapolytic or euapolytic. Scolex with four acetabula, apical modification of scolex proper, and apical organ; with or without region of scolex proper posterior to acetabula; cephalic peduncle absent. Acetabula bothridiate in form, facially unmodified, oval to triangular or rectangular in shape, with or without posterior notch at midline and/or bilateral notches. Apical modification of scolex proper variable, domeshaped to conical in form, with or without raised rim covered with hastate spinitriches, housing apical organ.

Apical organ primarily muscular or glandular, spherical or conical to inverted campanulate in form, non-protrusible. Proglottids craspedote, non-laciniate, anterior region surface covered with gladiate or hastate spinitriches; detached proglottids of hyperapolytic species with conspicuous anterior, vacuous spherical region. Testes 4–6 (rarely three) in number, in single median column anterior to ovary. Vas deferens extending from near ootype to cirrus-sac, may be expanded to form external seminal vesicle. Internal seminal vesicle absent. Cirrus-sac elliptical or elongate oval to pyriform; cirrus armed with spinitriches. Ovary essentially H-shaped in frontal view, irregular or tetralobed in crosssection. Vagina lateral or medial in proglottid, entering genital atrium posterior to or at same level as cirrus-sac. Genital pores lateral to sublateral, irregularly alternating. Uterus saccate, extending along or near midline of proglottid to posterior margin of anterior-most testis. Vitellarium follicular; vitelline follicles arranged in two lateral fields; each field consisting of one to two columns, extending from near genital pore on poral side, and near anterior-most testis or genital pore on aporal side to posterior margin of proglottid, partially or entirely interrupted by ovary in some. Excretory ducts four, arranged in one dorsal and one ventral pair. Eggs single, with bipolar filaments. Parasites of sleeper rays ( Narkidae ), numbfishes ( Narcinidae ), the epaulette shark Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Bonnaterre) (Hemiscylliidae) and stingrays ( Dasyatidae ) in the Central Indo-Pacific, including off India and Japan. Anteroporidae , Lecanicephalidea .